Emergency services and local councils are urging residents to stay away from floodwater, which is expected to lie around parts of the New South Wales north coast for days. People are being warned that floodwater often appears safer than it looks on the surface, and it may be carrying debris, sewage ...

After a house fire caused by a fire pot being used inside a Tasmanian bedroom this week, a fire-fighter says that some people are using unconventional heating methods because they can't afford to pay their power bills. The St Vincent de Paul Society says the cost of heating is one of the key financial ...

Documents obtained by the ABC under Queensland's Right to Information laws show that successive state governments have investigated regulating combat sports but have not implemented any changes. This is despite two young men dying after boxing bouts in the past five years. The documents show ...